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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill O'Reilly is very afraid of San Francisco

The drug- and homeless-infested city portrayed in a Fox report shows what the whole country will become under Obama.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 03:52 PM

ironically

everything they bring up as negatives in this video actually just make me wanna move there.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 03:53 PM

Fisking Bill

So, let's see:

1) Since the vast majority of America supports things "the Left" has been advocating for a long time (e.g., universal healthcare, getting out of Iraq), what exactly constitutes this "far Left" that O'Reilly is talking about? (Maybe when you're so far right, the center looks far left?)

2) O'Reilly hasn't really gotten out much if he thinks that San Francisco is the most "radical left government"-run city in America. Has he been to that town in Vermont that voted for impeachment? Has he been to Santa Cruz? (He should go to Humbolt; if ever a guy needed to smoke a lot of dope, it's O'Reilly.)

3) Ooo! Pot smoking! Next up: Heroin!

4) Where did this "producer" go, anyway? Did he spend his entire time in the Haight, or did he actually go up to Twin Peaks, or out to the Mission or the Sunset (which might as well be suburbia, honestly)?

5) "There's this enlightened attitude." Quelle horror! Enlightened people! We can't have any of those in traditional America!

And in closing let me just say: what is it with these guys and marijuana? Jealously? Fear? I just don't get it.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 03:56 PM

Yeah, tolerance is terrible...

I grew up next to San Francisco, living there off and on. It was not until my first day pass in US Air Force basic training that I was propositioned by a homosexual person, in San Antonio, Texas. The City remains Baghdad by the Bay (too bad that Baghdad no longer is...). Keep pushing that FEAR, O'Reilly.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 03:59 PM

What exactly does Bill O'Reilly expect his viewers to do about it?

Is O'Reilly...organizing a protest? Is he trying to start a letter writing campaign? What?

What does Bill O'Reilly want to happen as a result of this "Exposé"?

Oh, and Obama is from Chicago. How about showing that?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 03:59 PM

Bill O'Reilly,

Is an ass hole. Plain and simple. Using his analogy that because San Francisco has problems because their mayor doesn't allow its police force to shoot people reaching for their wallets like giuliani did in NYC when his reign of terror took place, than it's the way Obama would run this country clearly makes him the clown Olberman nighly points-out.

Why Fox Noise's ownership allows this type of clap-trap to be spewed over the airwaves is proof positive that the real hell on earth sits at a "news" desk nightly on that station. What a pompus dork. Nauseating...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:00 PM

i can see o'reilly dining at a san francisco eatery...

observing, "geez, no homos' have tried to impale me, how 'bout that!"

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:00 PM

Bill ought to stop by The City sometime

Right before I bitch slap him twice--once each for being a blowhard and a bigot--I'll show him around, oh I don't know, Bernal Heights, Noe Valley, Glen Park, the Marina, Cow Hollow, Pacific Heights, West Portal, Inner Sunset and a couple other places he can ogle all the white women pushing strollers he likes. Maybe one of them can toss him a loofah.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:03 PM

Wow, that sounds scary and I live in SF

It'd be easy to edit together video of even Rudy Guliani's New York that made it sound scary and weird.

He's right when he says there is a lot of homelessness, but that's due in part to the fact that we don't incarcerate them here. Declare a Rudyesque police state and you'll see some clearer parks... we just think it makes more sense to live with them in a civil society.

These two seem to imply that every corner of NYC is safe every hour of the night. And you have to love the logic of their argument: Obama is liberal. San Francisco is liberal. Therefore, all of America will now experience every problem that San Francisco does.

And why exactly is cannibis that bad? It's an ad hominem argument. It's less dangerous and addictive than alcohol. Does Bill realise that there are THOUSANDS of liquor stores in Manhattan alone? Somehow those stores escape his ire.

Bill, you need to come to San Francisco. I think a little weed would do you a world of good, brother. Or maybe not- you're paranoid enough as it is.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:06 PM

The whole picture, sure.

It's not really offensive -- it's just stupid.

This is a tourist's eye view of San Francisco.

They sent a camera crew to:

One block of Market Street.

Hippie Hill in GG Park, and Haight Street.

The Castro.

North Beach.

Where's the Marina, Pacific Heights, Ashbury Heights, the Sunset, the Richmond, the Mission? How about the handful of college campuses in the city?

Pretty funny that, when O'Reilly wants to know if this deviant behavior is widespread, he asks if it exists in Fisherman's Wharf -- where everyone is a tourist.

Never mind that mot of these homeless guys are vets who have been screwed by the Pentagon and ignored by the VA -- or that all these homeless kids have parents back there in "traditional America."

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:11 PM

Wait, There's Still A Bill O'Reilly?

He doesn't matter. He's preaching to the choir, and the choir's getting smaller (and, as the brains drain away, increasingly stupid) by the day. The thing that strikes me about this video is just how... dumb it is. How obvious and cynical and venal. I'd venture to say that no thinking person would take this video seriously, and luckily, the thinking people are in charge this time around.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:14 PM

huh, that's weid

it's so terrible here and home prices are up 14% this year in my zip code. As a matter of fact, my house is worth 50% more than it was when I bought it in 2004. Housing prices must be really great where Bill's fans live cuz it's soooo awesome...

and the food in SF? ROCKS.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:15 PM

As a resident of San Francisco

I can freely say Bill O'Reilly is a douche.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:17 PM

...and another thing

How about we show a KKK rally and a cross burning to represent "Conservative" America?

How about we record some guys from Trent Lott's home town talking about niggers and spics and have that represent what Republicans want?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:23 PM

Shame on O'Reilly -- marijuana reform has become a mainstream centrist issue

In Michigan, the medical marijuana ballot proposal

a) received more votes than Obama

b) won every single county, even the counties carried by McCain

Winning Republican counties in the Midwest -- if that isn't the definition of a mainstream, centrist issue, then I don't know what is.

It's true that San Francisco was in the vanguard on this issue, supporting it before it was adopted by the mainstream. But that's why our Founding Fathers had the foresight to write the principle of Federalism into the Constitution -- so that the states could serve as laboratories for public policy before said policy is applied to the rest of the country.

In San Francisco we see that Federalism works. Shame on the pseudo-conservatives at Faux News for missing the conservative success story in between the lines of "far left" San Francisco.

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